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1,650,556 G. E. WEBER TICKET DELIVERING APPARATUS Filed Nov. 25. 1925 sSheets-Sheet 1 m Eww E 6. E. WE zs- E.

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TICKET DELIVERING APPARATUS G. E. WEBER Filed Nov. 23. 1925 3Sheets-Sheet 2 mum 76E.

Nov, 22, 1927.

G. E. WEBER TIdKET ,DELIVERING APPARATUS Filed Nov. 2s.- 1925 ssheets-sheet 3 r F 8 sm- 3 Patented Nov. 22, 1927.

PATENT ()FFICE;

TIGKET DELIVERING APPARATUS.

Application filed November 23, v1825, Serial No. 71,003, and in GreatBritain January 17, 1925.

This invention has reference to apparatus for the delivery, one by one,of numbered tickets from a centinuousstrip or roll, and the presentinvention has for its object the improved construction, arrangement andworking of an apparatus of the above nature wl c there is effected thepositive feed of the strip a correctlength to and between the cutters ofthe guillotine, the cutting, of a ticket or tickets and the automaticreturn tonormal position of the movable cutter of the guillotine, thelocking of the operating rod of the apparatus at any point in the forward and rearward movement of said rod, the automatic forward movementof said operating rod, the automatic change in the number of theregistering mechanism, means for preventing the rearward movement of theticket strip, and means for locking said strip and said operating rodwhen the numbered tickets contained by said strip have been cutolhgiving an indication that the strip is finished in a more eflicientmanner than at present obtains. I

The invention also includes means for delivering a plurality of ticketsstacked to.- gether in superimposed relation as they are out off.

Inorder that the said invention may be more readily understood,reference is to be had to the following description and accompanyingsheets of drawings illustrativeof pra *tical embodiments of theinvention, and where in 7 Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form ofapparatus, the parts being in position ready for severing and deliveringa single ticket,

Figure 2 is a plan view, and,

Figure 3 a front end view of said apparatus,

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 1, but showing the position forforward feed of ticket strip, and also a ticket severed from oil saidticket strip. 1

Figure 5 is a plan view of the apparatus shown in Figure 4:. y 1

Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 1 but of a modified form,

Figure 7 is a transverse section on the line vn vrr of Figure 6 lookingto the left,

Figure 8 is a plan view of the left hand side of Figure (3 showing thedelivery mouth employed in this embodiment.

in carrying out the invention and referring to the drawings, on astandard 1 of a adapted to enga convenient shape there is supported bybraek- 'ets 2 a longitudinally and horizontally disposed platiorm 3 ofconvenient length, said platform 3 having inwardly returned edges 4-to'form a guideway for the passage of the ticket strip 5. v Adjacent thefront end of the platform 3 there is slidably mounted in verticallydisthe guillotine, the blade of said member 6 being maintained1101118113 in raised position above the fixed cutter blade 7 by means ofa spring 8 connecting the platform 3 and vertical member 9 carrying themovable blade 6 as in Figures 1 to 5 or to the standard 1 and to the topof the guillotine memhere as in Figures 6 to 8. Said movable cutter 6has a pin and slot connection 10 ith the operating arm 11 of theregistering mechanism 12 which is mounted on the platform 3, Saidplatform 8 at its rearward curved end has, offset from the longitudinalcentral line of said platform, a hole 13 therein for the purposehereinafter set forth.

Slidably mounted against the standard 1 and in and between brackets 1dand 15 is a flat longitudinally and horizontally disposed operating rod,16 which, on its upper edge and towards the front part thereof, isprovided with two oppositely disposed toothed racks 17 and 18respectively, separated by an upstanding cone-shaped block 19 onsaid rod16, To said block 19 is connectedone end of a strong coilspring 20,which, by its other end, is anchored to the fixed pin 63 of the standard1 aforesaid. Further, the operating rod 16 is, at its front part,provided with a longitudinally and horizontally disposed slot 21 and inwhich is located apin 22 lined to the bracket 14: (Figures 1 to 5 orfixed to the ba el (Figures 6 to 8, the pin 22 not being seen here) toassist in guiding said rod 16 in its movement to and fro and to limitthe backward movement of said rod 16. Pivotally mounted on the standard1 and above the rack portions 17 and 18 of the rod 16 is the lockingmember for said rod, said locking member consisting of a pawl 23 withtwo arms 24 and 25 respectively, re the racks 17 and 18 as and when saidrodlG is moved. Said pawl 23 in its upper part is formed with twonotches respectively 26 and 27., with which is adapted to engage thecatch end of a blade spring 28 according as said pawl 23 is thrown overin posed guideways the movable member 6 of the manner hereinafter setforth, said spring 28 being fixed to the standard 1 aforesaid.

Pivotally mounted on a carrier 29 carried by the front. face of theoperating rod 16 of the platform 3.

Formed in with the rod 16, or afiixed thereto in any suitable manner,and depending vertically from the lower edge thereof, is an arm 34, tothe lower end of which is pivotally connected an arm 35 which, to-

wards its front end and in its lower edge, is formed with a notch 36,said arm 35 termi nating in an upward and forwardly inclined nose 30. e

The notch 36 aforesaid is adapted to engage a pin 37 carried by the arm38 of a twoarm lever fulcrum on the standard 1,

the other arm 39 of said two-arm lever engaging the end of the inner arm51 of a second two-arm lever, also fulcruined on the standard 1. A stoppin 7 1 as in Figures 1 and et'may be employed for the arm 39. The endof the outer arm 42 of said second twoarm lever is pivotally connectedby means of a link 43 (as in Figures 1 to or by a pin6-it and slottedlug 65 to the lower end of the movable member 9 which carries themovable cutter 6 of the guillotine aforesaid.

Further, on the base portion of the standard 1 there is provided a stop66 (Figures 1 to 5) or a flanged roller 4% (10 being the flange) as inFigures 6 to 8 for the purpose hereinafter set forth; and, further,pivotally mounted by a spindle located forward of theplatform 3 andcarried on the standard 1 is a forwardly depending gravity-acting blade17 provided with a notched or serrated lower edge. In Figures 6 to 8 thesupport 46 for the projecting end of the spindle 45 is not employed.

At a convenient distance, and rear of the two-arm pawl 23, and above theoperating rod 16. there is aflixed to the standard 1 a verticallydisposed socket-like member as for the slidable reception therein of agravity plunger 41:9, which is in vertical alignment with the hole 13 inthe rear end of the plat form 3, said plunger a9 being provided (as inFigures 1 to 5) with a rearwardly extending catchpiece 5O slidable in aslot 51 in the socket member -18, and adapted, when said plunger falls,to engage in a slot 52 formed in the upper edge of the operating rod 16.A slight modification is shown in Figures 6 to 8 wherein the rearwardlyextending catch pieces (not seen) slid-able in the slot of the member 48is adapted, when said plunger falls, to engage a stop-piece 67 formed onthe upper edge of the operating rod 16 aforesaid.

So far, excepting for minor structural alterations and arrangements ofthe various components (levers, springs, guillotine mech anism and soforth), the two embodiments, i. e. Figures 1 to 5 and Figures 6 to 8 aresimilar, and the foregoing description is general.

platform 3) under which the severed tickets lie; the base of theslide-groove is longitudinally serrated at 541. The slideway 68 at itsouter mouth abruptly terminates, whilst the sides 55, and lips 53,continue, thereby constituting (with the thin base-plate 56) a recessedpart or pocket. Thus severed tickets which are moved up the slideway 68are deposited in superimposed or stacked fashion in the said pocket. Tomove the tickets, as and when severed, into the pocket, there isemployed a ticket-traveller claw 57 fixedly carried on a rod 58 rigidlyextending from a lever 59 pivoted to a spindle 60; The latter spindleprojects from the arm 3st of the operating rod 16. The claw 57 is keptdown to its work during its reciprocal movement to and from the pocket(53, 55, 56) over the grooved base 5% by means of the slight pivotalmovement of the lever 59 about its spindle 60, and the tension spring 61anchored at one end to the cone 19 of the rod 16, and at the other tothe up-turned finger 62 of the lever 59. The claw has projections whichfit in the grooves 54:.

The working of the apparatus is ,as follows Register is set to agreewith the numbers printed on the ticket strip 5. The plunger 49 israised, and the free end of the ticket strip Ill) 5, which strip is inroll or folded form, is.

passed under said plunger which is then allowed to drop and rest on thetop surface of the ticket strip 5. The strip 5 is then pushed into theguideways 4 and along the platform 3 under the spring controlled pawls31, raising the front edges thereof out of the groove 33 of, saidplatform 3. The strip 5 is then led to and under the serrated or notchedgravity blade 47 till the free end of said strip 5 rests on the fixedblade T of the guillotine. The operating rod 16 is then pulled backwardsthe requisite distance, against the action of the spring 20, the arm 24of the pawl 23, under the action of the spring 23, clicking over therack portion 1'7 of the operating rod 16 till such time as said arm 24engagesragainst the cone-shaped block 19 of the rod 16 and is thrownover, the spring 28 snapping into the notch 26 in the pawl 23 so thatthe arm 25 rests on the rack portion 18' of the rod 16, as shown inFigure 1.,

slot connection 64c-65 (Figures 6 to 8), an

idle downward stroke ofthe cutter member 6 against the actionof thespring 8, i

- as the cutter 6 aforesaid reaches the en t.

of its downward stroke, the lower edge of the arm 35 engages against andrides on the a stop 66 (Figures 1 to 5) or roller 4 1 (Fig ures 6 to 8)so that the notch 36 of the arm 35 slips the pin37 carried by the arm 38of the two-arm lever 3839, and said pin 37, as the, arm 35 moves furtherbackwards,

slips the nose 30, whereupon the cutter 6,

under the action of the spring 8, automatically rises to its normalposition. In so doing, it automatically returns (through theintermediary of the connection 43 or 1 6 1-65), the two-arm levers 42-41and 3839 to their original positions, the arm 41 of the lever 4241pressing the arm 39 of the lever 38-39 downwardly, leaving the rod 16 inits full backward position, as

shown in Figures 4 and 5,

In this position, the spring controlled pawls 31, which pawls 31 ridefreely on the surface 'of the ticket strip 5 during the backwardmovement of the rod 16, are clear back of one of a series of centrallydisposed holes 71 punched in the ticket strip 5, a hole for each ticketlength to be severed from said strip 5, as shown in Figure 5.

On releasing the operating rod 16, the same moves forward under theaction of the spring 20, so that the pawls 31 or one or some of themengage, under the action of their springs 32, by their front lower edgesin a strip hole 71 and carry the strip 5 forward a ticket length beyondthe guillotine as shown in Figures 1 and 2, backward slip of said strip5 being prevented by reason of the serrated or notched gravity blade 47engaging in the strip 5. Meanwhile, the arm 25 of the pawl 23, under theaction of the sprin 28, slips over the rack 18 of the operating rod 16till said pawl 23 is thrown over by engaging with the cone block 19 ofthe rod 16, the spring 28 at the same time snapping into the notch 27 ofthe pawl 23, bring ing the arm 2 1 thereof to a position resting on therack '17 of the operating rod 16.

With the above arrangement of pawl 23 and spring 28 and opposed racks 17and 18, any partial movement forward or backward of the rod 16 isprevented according to which of the arms 2% and 25 of the pawl 23 is inengagement with its rack, thus ens-un' ing a correct working stroke ofthe operat-- ingrod 16 in either direction.

The operating rod 16 is now pulled fully backwards again, and the firstdescribed action of the various parts'again takes place, the movablecutter 6 in this case making a power or cutting stroke, severing oil inthe present case a single ticket 72 from the ticket strip 5 which fallsas shown in Figures d and 5 or as in Figures 6 to 8 enters the slid'eway68 for delivery, the movement ofthe cutter -6 shifting the register oneure, and so on to the end of the strip.

' the provision of one, two or more of the sprmg-controlled pawls31,'there is ensured the positive picking up and feeding of the strip 5each time the operatingrod 16 moves forward, even if, and. as 1s oftenthecase, the holes 71 of the strip 5 are not in central alignment, asone or other of said side-by side pawls 31 will engagethe displacedhole,

according to which side of thecentral line it is displaced, and feed thestrip 5 forward;

As the end of the ticket strip 5 is reached, a hole 73 is formed offsetfrom the central line of said strip 5, which comes under the socket 18and into alignment with the offset hole 13 in the platform 3, whereuponthe plunger 19 drops into said holes 73 and 13 allowing the catch pieceof said plunger 19 to engage in the slot 52 (Figures 1 to 5) Or the stop67 on the upper edge of the operating rod 16, the same being in itsforward position, with the result that said rod 16 is locked againstmovement in a backward di rection, thus giving, as said rod cannot bemoved, an indication of the finish of the ticket strip.

Referring to the working of the ticketstacking device seen in Figures 6to 8, when the rod 16 is pulled backwards, the claw 57 (through lever59) is pulled down the slideway 54, riding over its abrupt end, andhooks over the lower end of a severed ticket already deposited in theslideway. Onthe return movement of the rod 16, the claw 57 moves up theslidewayc. carrying the ticket, which falls into the pocket on the top.A repetition of the movement will stack the tickets one on top of theother in said pocket. The pocket is located under a delivery slot in. atable top of the apparatus, and the stacked tickets project through saidslot.

I claim I 1. In a ticket delivery apparatus of the class described, anupright supporting memher, a longitudinally and horizontally -mountedplatform supported by said member, guideways carried by said platformfor the passage therethrough of a ticket strip, means for moving aticket strip forward over saidplatform a ticket length, including anoperating rod, a guillotine located adjacent the front end of theplatform for severing the ticket strips, a vertically depending armcarried by said operating rod, means operatively connecting said armwith the movable cutter of. said guillotine to effect on the backwardmovement of the operating rod the downward stroke of said movable cutterto cut off aticket from the ticket strip and permit the automatic returnof the cutter, said operating means comprising a twoarmed lever pivotedto said upright, the outer arm of said lever being pivotally connectedto the movable cutter frame. another two-armed lever fulcrumed on saidupright and engaging theinner arm of the first mentioned lever, a pincarried by said second lever, an arm pivotally connected to the lowerend of the depending arm. a notch in the lower edge of said pivoted armto normally engage said pin, a stop carried by said upright, saidpivoted arm having a curved portion in its lower. edge adjacent thenotch therein and an upwardly and forwardly inas clined nose.

above said rack, said pawl having notches in its upper face, a bladespring to engage one or the other of said notches according to theposition occupied by the pawl.

3. A ticket delivering apparatus comprising aguillotine, a ticketdelivery slideway extending therefrom, means for advancing tickets alongsaid shdeway after the same have been severed, said slideway beingprovided with a ticket receiving pocket. and an operating clawsynchronized with said mechanism to deposit said severed tickets in saidpocket.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature hereto this 3rd day ofNovember, 1925.

GUSTAVUS ERNEST WEBER.

